New VA Trout waters open as century dam comes down

[Woolly Bugger]

http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=4277


VA's South River runs free for first time in more than a century
There is hope that the waterway could become urban trophy-trout stream

By Beau Beasley
While a pair of heavy-duty earth movers lumbered back and forth across the rocky stream bed of the South River like busy, destructive beavers, a hydraulic hammer chipped away at the old Rife-Loth Dam's moss-covered limestone walls. It was a symphony of metal scraping stone, only occasionally interrupted when the giant hammer stopped pulsing and the sound of rushing waters spilling over the old dam rose above the din.

The century-old dam, located in the middle of Waynesboro, VA, was finally coming down - and rising in its stead was the promise of new life for Virginia's South River.

[JWJ]

"It was a symphony of metal scraping stone, only occasionally interrupted when the giant hammer stopped pulsing and the sound of rushing waters spilling over the old dam rose above the din."



Beau Beasley. What a wordsmith.



Pah!

[Dougfish]

And they have added 1.5 miles of special reg. water upstream. I'm gonna try it a week a so.
http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/trout/special-regulation-trout-waters/
16", 2/day limit.

[Woolly Bugger]

And they have added 1.5 miles of special reg. water upstream. I'm gonna try it a week a so.
http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing/trout/special-regulation-trout-waters/
16", 2/day limit.

sounds neat, take some pics and post a report...